Daughters or dowries? The changing nature of dowry practices in south India

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Domestic Violence and Dowry: Evidence from a South Indian Village (2007, background): “8 Dowry is often regarded as streedhanam (female property), which according to Tambiah (1973: 86) ‘a woman received from her parents and relatives before and at marriage’.... ‘over which a woman exercised dominion independently of her husband’. In the absence of inheritance rights for women Kishwar ”
Age of Marriage, Weather Shocks, and the Direction of Marriage Payments (2020, background): “…it is a much more recent phenomenon in the South, where bride price traditions were formerly the norm (Caldwell, Reddy, and Caldwell, 1983; Srinivasan, 2005; Chiplunkar and 4Traditionally, dowry appears to have served mainly as a pre-mortem bequest made to daughters rather than as a…”